To qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Party leaders are preparing to make a final attempt to win the backing of undecided voters on the last day of campaigning ahead of the general election. With 2a hours to go until polls open, in what both borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have described as the most important election for a generation, politicians will appear at rallies in target seats across the uk, to make last ditch bids for support. Our correspondent alex forsyth is on the campaign trail with the Prime Minister. He is the first of those political leaders off the blocks this morning. I think hes already been taking pa rt i think hes already been taking part in one event. Tell us what hes been saying. Yes, theres always a Frenetic Energy to the final day of an Election Campaign and i think this one more than most and mixed in with that as a healthy dose of tension because this still feels very much like an election w
Lets start with the huge sell off currently taking place on global stock markets, which over the past 2a hours have seen their biggest falls since 2018. In the us, the dowjones and s p 500 both fell by almost 3 on monday, and tech heavy nasdaq was down by 3. 5 . Investors are concerned about the latest developments in the trade war between washington and beijing. A few hours ago the white house officially called china a currency manipulator after a sharp fall in the value of the chinese yuan against the dollar. It passed the seven per dollar level for the First Time Since 2008. Nervy investors have been pouring their money into safe haven assets as a result, with gold futures currently trading at a six year high, hovering around the 1,500 level. Lets get more now from samira hussain, who sent us this report from new york. It is clear that investors here on wall street were spoke by chinas moved to devalue its currency. Us Financial Markets and their worst day in all of 2019. Investors
Allowed aboard. And welcome to brighton beach. Brighton beach. After one of the wettest julys on record now at 60 mile an hour winds , thunder storms an hour winds, thunder storms and warnings as we hit and flood warnings as we hit august just where her summer gone. Will it be back. Gone. Will it be back. Plus, the electioneering starts after former snp mp Margaret Ferrier lost her seat last night. Margaret ferrier lost her seat last night. The Margaret Ferrier lost her seat last night. The political last night. The Political Parties are already beating a path to rutherglen and hamilton. Well be live in the constituency that everyone wants. First, the latest headunes wants. First, the latest headlines with. Ray headlines with. Ray thank you both. Good thank you both. Good afternoon. Its one minute past midday. Heres the latest. Got midday. Heres the latest. Got some breaking news in the last few minutes. Rape suspect Nicholas Rossi accused of faking his own death to evade justice. Can
The decisions of the committee for the second reading three or four times, introducing amendments agreed in closed offices behind closed doors it is unknown with whom and unknown by whom we will not be able to qualitatively build a democratic system in the state and will not develop institutions that are the very guarantee of our integration into the European Union and nato, which should ensure at this stage equal conditions for equal conditions for entering the market of all players of all businesses and getting rid of the political influence of oligarchs , that is exactly what we are fighting for, but these are the moments and this draft law does not correspond to that, colleagues. We have all the prepared materials in order to finalize it qualitatively. Political will archamia political will will be for the second stage of the reform, i ask you to confirm this, thank you dear colleagues , please one minute burmich, please dear chairman dear colleagues of course you can call a hare a
New figures suggest its makeup and computer games. But are they facing more pressure than ever to spend . Ell leek, at. The numbers;~ , ~ ~~ it is nearly there. Our first medal from britain is within touching distance. Don parsons is a split second outside the medals in fourth in the halfway stage of the mens skeleton that we will have to wait till tonight. Mat with the weather. A few showers around again producing snow across the north and the west of the uk. Details on that and a full run up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. At least 17 people including children and adults have been killed after a gun attack at a high school in florida. Several other people are being treated in hospital. Shortly after the shootings, Police Arrested a 19 year old former pupil whod been expelled from the school in parkland, around 50 miles north of miami. From there, nada tawfik reports. This was supposed to be one of the safest communities in the country. In an instant, these student